Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gymnopus tenuipes (Schw.) Murrill
Agaricus tenuipes Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 11. 4: 147. 1822.
Agaricus (Dermocybe) Hilairianus Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 8: 366. 1837.
Agaricus rheicolor Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 3: 376. 1839.
Agaricus (Collybia) cayennensis Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 1: 94. 1854.
Marasmius rhabarbarinus Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 135. 1856.
Marasmius amabilipes Peck, Bot. Gaz..4: 216. 1879.
Agaricus cerinus Morgan, Trans. Cine. Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: 66. 1883. Not Agaricus cerinus Pers.
1801. Collybia tenuipes Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 213. 1887. Agaricus {Collybia?) aurantiellus Speg. Fungi Guar. Pug. 16. 244. 1883.
Pileus thin, sub translucent, convex to plane or slightly depressed, solitary or gregarious, 2-5 cm. broad; surface ochraceous to yellowish-red and finely and densely tomentose when young, becoming bay or chestnut and glabrous, rugose on the disk, margin concolorous, striate, not inflexed on drying: lamellae adnate with a short tooth, of medium width, crowded, interveined, subventricose, flavous: spores elUpsoid, smooth hyaline, 5-7 X 3-4 ju: stipe equal, flavous or ferruginous to brownish, densely and persistently velvety-tomentose its entire length,
4r-7 cm. or more long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality: Bethlehem, Pa.
Habitat: On dead wood.
Distribution: Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mmnesota, Ohio,
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
